From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Maciej Stachowiak Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470921315 Sender: mstx@207-172-255-37.s37.tnt2.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com References: <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fqld6$htu$1@nnrp1.dej <1999Apr23.172908.1@eisner> <7frqmj$bg6$1@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au> <7ftfj4$vln$1@Jupiter.mcs.net> <7fud3l$hqi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g0bdf$3q9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: vpeKdZF9oOjtwVcBN8Y6j2trhNay2KV1nVnZaeAEKOE= NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Apr 1999 05:29:51 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com Date: 1999-04-26T05:29:51+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > In article > om>, > Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > Cygnus has regularly delivered the code for major > > features to the EGCS tree, and I suspect quite a few > > major features appeared in the EGCS tree before they were > > shipped to Cygnus customers. > > That would be an interesting suspicion to back up. One singinficant example would be the Java front end. That appeared in the EGCS tree long before it was at all fit for use, so I doubt it got shipped to customers first. From a rough examination of their web pages, it is not clear whether they are selling it now. > Yes, of course Cygnus drops developments to EGCS, no one > is saying that they don't. In fact, a large reason they started it was to avoid maintaining large internal code forks. > It is just that, as in the case of GNAT, there is usually a lag > between the development of new features and their dropping into > EGCS. There's a difference between lag time from development to drop to the public tree and lag time between ship to paying customers and drop to the public tree. Of course, Cygnus likely does both for different things. I am not going to get into this flame war though, I am not even an Ada user and I think anyone should have the right to use whatever release policy they choose as long as they comply with relevant licenses. - Maciej